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About the Series | |
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About This Volume | |
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List of Illustrations | |
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Introduction | |
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Macbeth (Edited by David Bevington) | |
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Cultural Contexts | |
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Representations of Macbeth | |
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Early Narratives | |
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From A History of Greater Britain | |
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From History of Scotland | |
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From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland | |
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The Cultural Afterlife of Shakespeare's Macbeth | |
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From Book of Plays | |
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From The Witch | |
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From "The Story of Macbeth," in A Collection of Divers and Remarkable Stories | |
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From Macbeth, A Tragedy | |
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Epilogue to The Empress of Morocco | |
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Discourses of Sovereignty | |
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The Succession Controversy | |
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From A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England | |
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From A Discovery of a Counterfeit Conference | |
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From An Answer to the First Part of a Certain Conference | |
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From Succession Act | |
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The Jacobean Theory of Kingship | |
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From Basilikon Doron | |
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From The True Law of Free Monarchies | |
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From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall | |
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From Patriarcha: Or the Natural Power of Kings | |
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Royal Charisma and the King's Touch | |
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From The Divine Power or Gift of Healing | |
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From A Right Fruitful and Approved Treatise | |
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From A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the 17. Day of November, 1602 | |
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Treason and Resistance | |
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Resistance in Theory | |
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From A Short Treatise of Politic Power | |
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From An Homily against Disobedience and Willfull Rebellion | |
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From The Powers of the Crown in Scotland | |
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From A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants | |
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Resistance in Action | |
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Reports to the Doge and Senate | |
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From A Speech to Parliament | |
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Equivocation | |
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From Speech at the Trial of Father Henry Garnet | |
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From A Treatise of Equivocation | |
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From A Treatise Tending to Mitigation towards Catholic Subjects in England | |
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The Cultural Construction of Scotland | |
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From The Description of Scotland | |
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Henry V, Act I, Scene 2 | |
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From A Treatise on the Union of the British Realms | |
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From An Itinerary | |
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From A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland | |
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From The Penniless Pilgrimage, Or the Moneyless Perambulation | |
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Witchcraft and Prophecy | |
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Discourses of Witchcraft | |
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From The Discovery of Witchcraft | |
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From A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts | |
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News from Scotland | |
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From Daemonology, In Form of a Dialogue | |
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An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits | |
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Prophecy | |
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From An Act against Fond and Fantastical Prophecies | |
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From A Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies | |
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From The Discovery of Witchcraft | |
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From A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft | |
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From Of Prognostications | |
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From Of Prophecies | |
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Discources of the Feminine | |
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From The Discovery of Witchcraft | |
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From The Method of Physic | |
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From A Brief Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother | |
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From The Sick Woman's Private Looking-Glass | |
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From Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man | |
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From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery | |
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From Childbirth, Or the Happy Delivery of Women | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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Illustrations | |
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Genealogy of the Kings of England and Scotland at the Time of the Play | |
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The English Succession | |
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The Scottish Succession | |
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Genealogy og the Scottish Descent from Banquo by John Leslie | |
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"Sergeant at Arms, Slain by Rebels," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Cronicles, 1577 | |
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"Macdonwald Slayeth His Wife and Children, and Lastly Himself," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles | |
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"Macbeth, Banquo, and the Three Weird Sisters," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles | |
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"Macbeth Upsurpeth ther Crown, ," Woodcut from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles | |
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Genealogy of the Contemporary Scottish Decent by John Leslie | |
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Genealogy of the English Decent by Robert Parsons | |
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King James VI and I in 1605, Attributed to John de Critz the Elder | |
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Page in James's Handwriting from the Manuscript of Basilikon Doron | |
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Frontispiece to the Collected Works of King James, 1616 | |
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Frontispiece to Mischief's Murphy, John Vicar's 1617 Account of the Gunpowder Plot | |
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Key Gunpowder Plot Conspirators and Their Fates, from a Dutch Engraving | |
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England Buffeted by Enemies, from John Vicars's Mischief's Mystery | |
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"The Execution of the Gunpowder Plot Conspirators," a Print by Nicholas de Visscher | |
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Map of Scotland, from John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Greart Britain, 1611-12 | |
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"The True Picture of One Pict," from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,1590 | |
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"The True Pictures of a Woman Pict," from Thomas Hariot's A Brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia | |
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Incidents from News from Scotland, 1591 | |
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James Interrogated the Witches, Woodcut from News from Scotland | |
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Scenes from Doctor Fian's Life, Woodcut from News from Scotland | |
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"Cure" for Womb Disease, from Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia, 1615 | |
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Frontipiece to John John Sandler, The Sick Woman's Private Looking Glass, 1636 | |
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Title Page to Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia | |
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Female Reproductive Organs, From Jacob Rueff's The Expert Midwife, 1637 | |